[PATCH] [POWERPC] [v2] Improved documentation of device tree'ranges'.

Stephen Neuendorffer stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com
Tue Dec 4 16:27:08 EST 2007


I'm actually a little embarrassed that I didn't pick that nit myself.. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibson [mailto:david at gibson.dropbear.id.au]
Sent: Mon 12/3/2007 6:40 PM
To: Stephen Neuendorffer
Cc: grant.likely at secretlab.ca; linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] [v2] Improved documentation of device tree'ranges'.
 

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:08:57PM -0800, Stephen Neuendorffer wrote:
> I was misled by the prior language.  I've attempted to clarify how
> 'ranges' are used, in particular, how to get an identity mapping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com>

Acked-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Thanks for the update.  I particularly dislike the "1:1" terminology,
because in maths-speak *any* ranges translation is 1:1, unless it
includes overlapping ranges.

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